{"id":125717,"date":"2025-01-11T03:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T08:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/11\/legendary-soul-singer-sam-moore-half-of-sam-dave-dies-at-89\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T03:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T08:03:20","slug":"legendary-soul-singer-sam-moore-half-of-sam-dave-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/11\/legendary-soul-singer-sam-moore-half-of-sam-dave-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Soul Singer Sam Moore, Half of Sam & Dave, Dies at\u00a089"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tSam Moore<\/a>, half of the seminal duo Sam & Dave<\/a>, died Friday (Jan. 10) in Coral Gables, Fla. The cause of death was complications from surgery. He was 89.<\/p>\n

\n\tMoore, who was revered by artists including Bruce Springsteen<\/a>, Phil Collins, Garth Brooks and Jon Bon Jovi, had an instantly recognizable tenor, first heard on such call-and-response classics as Sam & Dave\u2019s 1960s hits \u201cHold On, I\u2019m Coming\u201d and the Grammy-winning \u201cSoul Man,\u201d both of which reached No. 1 on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Hot R&B Singles chart, as well as\u00a0\u201cI Thank You\u201d and \u201cWhen Something Is Wrong with My Baby.\u201d The duo, who performed at Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s memorial concert at Madison Square Garden following his assassination in 1968, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 by Billy Joel.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\tMoore, who grew up in Miami, began singing in church and drew the attention of another legendary Sam, Sam Cooke, who wanted Moore to replace him in his gospel group The Soul Stirrers. However, after seeing Jackie Wilson perform, Moore shifted from gospel to pop and was performing at the King O\u2019Hearts Club when he met Dave Prater and the two formed Sam & Dave.<\/p>\n

\n\tLegendary Atlantic Records executives Ahmet Ertegun, Tom Dowd<\/strong> and Jerry Wexler<\/strong> saw the pair at the King O\u2019Hearts Club and signed them to the label in 1965. Wexler passed them to Atlantic\u2019s southern partner, Stax Records, where Isaac Hayes and David Porter took them under their wing and produced their iconic hits.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing Sam & Dave\u2019s breakup in 1970, Moore signed to Atlantic as a solo artist. He recorded a solo album produced by King Curtis featuring Donnie Hathaway and Aretha Franklin<\/a>. However, after Curtis was murdered in 1971, the album was shelved. He reunited with Dave for a few years, but spiraled into heroin addiction, which was chronicled in the DA Pennebaker\/Chris Hegedus documentary Only the Strong Survive.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tInterest in the duo was greatly revived by 1980\u2019s The Blues Brothers<\/em> movie, starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. The pair\u2019s main theme was their boisterous version of \u201cSoul Man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe song \u201cturned out to be an anthem, sort of like \u2018Blowin\u2019 in the Wind\u201d or one of those,\u201d Moore told the Library of Congress in a 2002 interview when \u201cSoul Man\u201d was added to the Library\u2019s National Recording Registry. \u201cAnd, I tell you, it doesn\u2019t matter where I sing \u2014 perform it \u2014 at the end of the night; if we didn\u2019t do \u2018Soul Man, the room would go up in smoke!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMoore also shared how he and Prater worked out how to trade verses, with the help of Hayes. \u201cBy me at that time being the dominate one \u2014 and I\u2019m not bragging here \u2014 I always sang the high parts,\u201d he said in the same interview. \u201cWe went back with Isaac and he took us back and forth [with the verses]. Isaac was like, \u2018Sam, try something like this.\u2019 I remember him saying, \u2018We want it bright. Not a dull opening.\u2019 That\u2019s why you hear all the high. Isaac was the one that suggested that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the early \u201880s, Moore became sober with the help of Joyce McRae, whom he married in 1982 and who became his manager.<\/p>\n

\n\tMoore went on to perform for six U.S. presidents \u2014 Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump \u2014 and was a frequent performer at the Kennedy Center Honors.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpringsteen asked Moore to perform on his 1992 Human Touch<\/em> album, as well as Only the Strong Survive<\/em>, his 2023 album of soul covers.<\/p>\n

\n\tMoore recovered his lost 1970 album, Plenty Good Loving<\/em>, and released it in 2002 via EMI. \u201cI met Sam and his wife, Joyce, when I was in my 20s and working for Rhino Records, who reissued the classic Sam & Dave albums,\u201d says Exceleration Music creative director David Gorman<\/strong>, who was instrumental in the album finally seeing daylight. \u201cDrooling fanboy that I was, I showed up to our first meeting holding a 45 and asking for his autograph. The 45 was his solo single \u2018If I Should Lose Your Love.\u2019 When he picked it up, his jaw dropped because he had completely forgotten that he ever made a solo record at all. Over dinner, his memories came flooding back and he remembered making an entire album but had no recollection around its fate. As soon as I got back to LA, I asked [mastering engineer] Bill Inglot if it really existed and within a few days he\u2019d found the tapes and sent over a CD-R. It was brilliant. Sam, Joyce, and I worked together to find a new home for the solo album nobody remembered making.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFour years later, Moore released his first new album in 30 years, Overnight Sensational<\/em>, which featured Bon Jovi, Sting, Springsteen and Billy Preston, with whom he received a Grammy nomination for their duet of \u201cYou Are So Beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2019, Moore and Prater received the Recording Academy\u2019s highest honor, its Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his later years, in addition to continuing to perform, Moore became an artists\u2019 advocate, including testifying in Congress on behalf of the Fair Play Fair Pay Act, which would pay performers for radio airplay.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHis loss is deep,\u201d Gorman says. \u201cHe was a force of joy as a human being, who lit up everyone around him. As an artist he had the explosive ability to work a crowd out \u2014 even Otis [Redding] feared following Sam & Dave on stage \u2014 but I found Sam\u2019s genius alone with his records, especially the ballads. Sam\u2019s cries, his knowing asides, the way would use time as a weapon to hit you when it would hurt or heal the most, gave me comfort and companionship in ways no other artist could. He could turn up the tempo and turn up the heat, but his slow-burn just couldn\u2019t be touched. He was a master, the last of his kind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time of his death, Moore was working on a gospel album with Rudy Perez.\u00a0He is survived by Joyce, daughter Michelle and grandchildren Tash and Misha.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sam Moore, half of the seminal duo Sam & Dave, died Friday (Jan. 10) in Coral Gables, Fla. The cause of death was complications from surgery. He was 89. Moore, who was revered by artists including Bruce Springsteen, Phil Collins, Garth Brooks and Jon Bon Jovi, had an instantly recognizable tenor, first heard on such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}